Suspenders.



P. W. MALLY 5; E. P. HUDSON.

SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1911.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8, 1911.

1,084,095, Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK W. MALLY, OF CRYSTAL CITY, TEXAS, AND EDWIN P. HUDSON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA; SAID MALLY ASSIGNOR TO SAID HUDSON.

SUSPENDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 8, 1911.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914. Serial No. 637,545.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK 1V. MALLY and EDWIN P. HUDsoN, citizens of the United States of America, and residents, respectively, of Crystal City, Zavalla county, Texas, and Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for supporting a double cast-off loo-p in open position at either or both ends.

Our invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in our claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating our improvement, the cast-01f loop being in closed position. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the indicated line 22 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are side and sectional views respectively illustrating a modified construction of the device. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the blank from which one member of the de vice is formed. Figs. 6 and 7 are side and sectional views respectively illustrating a further modified form of the device. Figs. 8 and 9 are side and sectional views respectively illustrating a further modified form of the device. Figs. 10 and 11 are side and sectional views respectively illustrating a further modified form of the device. Fig. 12 is a detail view of the blank from which one member of the device is formed.

This device is an improvement on or attachment for the devices shown and described in our Letters Patent of the United States No. 993,527 granted May 30, 1911, to which reference hereby is made.

In the construction of the device as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the numeral 10 designates an end loop formed in the front portion of a shoulder strap or elastic web of suspenders in a common and well known manner. A clip 11 is provided and preferably is formed of a single piece of metal havinga slot 12 transversely of its wider end portion adapted to admit and slide on the loop 10, and also formed with a slot 13 parallel with and adjacent to the slot 12 and of lesser length than the first slot. A hanger strap 14, preferably made of leather,

is mounted through the slot 13 and engages the lowermost bar of the clip 11 at its center, end portions of the hanger strap de pending in parallel planes from said bar. Supporting hooks 15, 16 are provided and the stems of said hooks are placed back to back in parallel relations between end portions of the hanger strap 14. The stems of the hooks 15, 16 are spaced apart and the supporting terminals of said hooks proect in opposite directions from a plane between said stem. A loop 17, preferably made of wire, is mounted between the hooks 15, 16. The loop 17 preferably is endless and of somewhat greater width in its lower portlon than in its upper portion and said lower portion of the loop preferably extends below the lowermost portions of the hooks 15, 16. A double button stud 18 is mounted through coinciding apertures in end portions of the hanger strap 14 and in the stems of the hooks 15, 16 and the central portion of the stud extends through the narrower upper portion of the loop 17. The double stud 18 is of separable button type at each end and is mounted through and projects from opposite sides of the hanger strap. The double stud 18 may be of any desired construction so long as it embodies the characteristics of a double-ended stud adapted to receive separable buttons at either end and also adapted to confine end portions of the hanger strap, stems and loop in desired contiguous relations. A keeper 19 or castoff loop, preferably made of leather, is mounted through and engages and is supported by the lower portion of the loop 17 and extends across the lower ends of the hooks 15, 16 as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. It is the function of the loop 17 to support the keeper or cast-off loop 19 at its center when said keeper is in open position at one or both ends as is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Button sockets 20, 21 are mounted in opposite portions of the keeper or cast-ofi' loop 19 and are adapted to engage and detachably connect with opposite end portions of the double button stud 18. The sockets 20, 21 may be of any desired construction so long as they embody the characteristics of separable members adapted detachably to connect side portions of the keeper to the stud 18. Tabs 22, 23, in this instance two in numher and susceptible of being formed with button-holes in their end portions as shown in our patent above mentioned, are mounted loosely in and are supported at their centers by the lower portions of the hooks 15, 16. The tabs 22, 23 are adapted for engagement with buttons on bifurcated garments such as trousers, drawers and overalls, and are free to move longitudinally in the hooks and also to be lifted out of the hooks manually whendesired. The keeper 19 is adapted to be mounted around the lower ends and across the openings of the hooks 15, 16 and be secured in closed position by engagementof the sockets 20, 21 with opposite ends of the stud 18.

It will be observed that either end of the keeper 19 may be detached or attached independently of the other end to permit the removal or replacement of either of the tabs 22, 23 independently of the other and when one tab is removed the other is confined and held in place. It also will be observed that both of the tabs can be removed laterally from the hooks, or. replaced thereon, only when both of the ends of the keeper are detached from the stud 18. Herein is found the utility of our improvement, illustrated in this instance by the loop 17, in that said loop engages and supports the keeper 19 at its center when said keeper is partially or wholly detached from the stud 18 for the purpose of removing, simultaneously or in near succession, the tabs from the hooks.

In the construction of the device as illustrated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, the same clip 11 is employed but the hooks are difierently constructed. In this instance we employ a blank 24, preferably made of sheet metal, generally of rectangular form with rounded ends and having laterally projecting ears 25, alike in construction, on its end portions. The blank 24 is adapted to be bent on its center as indicated by the dotted line 26 in Fig. 5, to bring its end portions into parallel relations and is further adapted to be mounted through the slot 13 of the clip and engage the lowermost bar of said clip and be suspended thereby at its center. The blank 24 either is made sufiiciently narrow to pass through the slot 13 freely with the ears 25 extended, or said slot is made of sufiicient width to receive said blank with the ears at one end folded.

flat to one side. Holes 27 are formed in the blank and are adapted to register with each other when the blank is folded as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 to receive the double button stud 18 above described. In this instance it; is the function of the double button stud 18 button sockets 20, 21 as above described is mounted across the lower portions of the hooks 28, 29 and is confined by bending the ears 25 downwardly and inwardly across and beneath marginal portions of said keeper contiguous to and on opposite sides of the center thereof. Tabs 22, 23 are mounted in the hooks 28, 29 as above described. In this construction the keeper or cast-off loop 19 is supported, when in open position at either or both ends, by the hooks formed of the ears 25.

In the construction of the device as illus trated in Figs. 6 and 7, the clip 11 having the transverse slots and the double hook formed by the blank 24 having hooks 28, 29 at either end, the double button stud 18, the keeper 19 or cast-off loop, the button sockets 20, 21 and tabs 22, 23 follow the same lines as above described with the exception that the ears 25 are omitted from the blank 24 and in lieu thereof, as a holding medium, we employ a hanger 32 and a supporting loop 33. The hanger 32 preferably is made of sheet metal folded at its center to receive and support the loop 33 and pierced at its ends to receive and be supported by the double button stud 18. The supporting loop 33 preferably is of oblate form and is positioned with its greatest dimension horizontally so that the opening thereof will receive and embrace the central portion of the keeper or cast-01f loop 19. In this instance it is the function of the supporting loop 33 and hanger 32 to carry the keeper or cast-off loop 19 at its center when said keeper is detached at one or both ends from the button stud and is in open position at either or both ends.

The construction illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9 combines the supporting device shown in Figs. 6 and 7 with other elements shown in Figs. 1 and 2. It employs the clip 11 having the transverse slots, the hanger strap 14 extending through one of the slots of the clip, the separate hooks 15, 16 arranged back to back between end portions of the hanger strap, the sheet metal hanger 32 arranged between said hooks, the double button stud 18 connecting the hanger strap, hooks and sheet metal hanger, the supporting loop 33 of oblate form suspended in the looped end portion of the sheet metal hanger 32, the keeper or cast-oil loop 19 extending at its center through and supported by the loop 33, the sockets 20, 21 carried by end portions of the keeper or cast-off loop 19 and adapted to engage end portions of the double button stud 18, and the tabs 22, 23. In this instance it is the function of the strap 14 to support the device on the clip 11 and it is the function of the loop 33 and sheet metal hanger 32 to support the keeper 19 at its center when said keeper is detached and in open position at either or both ends.

The construction as illustrated in Figs. 10, 11 and 12 embodies some of the features shown in Figs. 1, 2, 8 and 9 combined with some of the features shown in Figs. 3 and 4. It employs the clip 11 having the transverse slots, the hanger strap 14 extended through one of the slots, the hooks 24: 2 1 arranged back to back between end portions of the hanger strap, the double button stud 18 connecting the hanger strap and hooks, the keeper or cast-off loop 19 supported on opposite sides of its center by ears 25 formed on the hooks 2 1, 2-1" and bent downward and inward beneath marginal portions of said keeper, the sockets 20, 21., and the tabs 22, 23. In this instance it is the function of the hanger strap 14: to carry the device from the clip 11 and it is the function of the cars 25 to support the central portion of the keeper or cast-ofli loop 19 when the same is detached and in open position at either or-both ends. It will be noted that the hooks 24*, 2 1* follow closely the construction of the double hook illustrated in Fig. 5, except that the closed portion of the double hook is cut away and the hanger strap 14 is substituted therefor to suspend the hooks from the clip 11.

We claim as our invention- 1. A clip formed with a plurality of supporting hooks adapted to receive two separate tabs, a cast-off embracing said hooks, detachable connections between each end of the cast-01f and said clip, and supporting means engaging and carrying the central portion of said. cast-01f auxiliary to the detachable connections.

2. A plurality of hooks, tabs loosely mounted in said hoo is, a double button stud mounted through said hooks, a keeper hav ing a button socket on each end adapted to engage end portions of said stud, the body of the keeper embracing the hooks and tabs therein, and supporting means engaging and carrying the body of the keeper centrally and auxiliary to the button sockets and stud.

3. Supporting hooks arranged back to back, a double button stud through the stems of said hooks, a keeper having a button socket on each end adapted to engage end portions of said stud, the body of the keeper embracing the hooks and tabs therein, and supporting means engaging and suspending the body of the keeper on the median line between and auxiliary to said sockets and stud.

4. Supporting hooks arranged back to back, a double button stud through the stems of said hooks, keeper having a button socket on each end adapted to engage end portions of said stud, the body of the keeper embracing the hooks and tabs therein, and supporting means suspended from said stud and engaging and supporting the central portion of the keeper auxiliary to and independently of said sockets.

5. Hooks arranged back to back, a double button stud mounted through stems of said hooks, suspending means on said stud independent of and depending between said hooks, and a keeper extending through and carried by said suspending means beneath said hooks, said keeper engaging at its center with said suspending means and formed with button sockets 011 opposite sides of its center, said button sockets adapted to engage opposite ends of said stud.

6. Hooks arranged back to back, a double button stud mounted through stems of said hooks, suspending means associated with aid hooks, and a keeper extending through and carried at its center by said suspending means beneath said hooks, said keeper formed with button sockets on opposite sides of the hooks, said button sockets adapted to engage opposite ends of said stud.

7. Hooks arranged back to back, a keeper extending across and beneath and adapted to embrace said hooks, a double-ended button stud connecting said hooks, suspending connections between the center of said keeper and the stud, and button sockets on end portions of said keeper adapted to engage detachably the ends of said stud.

Sigend by me, FRED. W. MALLY, at Crystal City, Texas, this 29th day of May, 1911.

FRED. W. MALLY.

Witnesses:

W. FRED J ONES, CARL MOUREAU.

Signed by me, EDWIN P. HUDSON, at Des Moines, Iowa, this 81st day of May, 1911.

EDWIN P. HUDSON.

Witnesses S. C. SWEET, EARL M. SINCLAIR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, "by addressing the Uommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

